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It is not frozen. This is where you have to bring up the web UI (using the Synology Assistant app), and install the PAT file. But if you've read the setup guide, you wouldn't be posting a new thread for an already explained problem (I myself wrote the almost same sentence at least a dozen time).

How do you want to use XPE if you don't have any HDDs connected? Seriously, it is a NAS - Network Attached Storage - OS, not a simple Linux install! It is DESIGNED for handling hard drives and volumes. Besides, as it was said, it installs to every hard drive that is detected as an internal one, the following way: 1. Synology erases the drive completely 2. The drive gets initialized the following way: |MBR|Synoboot partition|Partition for system, 2GB|Space ready to be added to a volume| 3. The system partition is then added to a RAID array, making it completely secure (so no matter how many hard drives you remove, if one original drive stays in, it can still boot). If you want to have a system running off of an SD card, try any kind of Linux distro. Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, all have the functionality of Synology, but are more open and flexible.

2GB is more than enough. But streaming will be difficult on the N54L, as DLNA transcoding uses the hardware, and that is not too strong, at least not strong enough to provide proper transcoded streaming in 1080p (besides, DLNA as a standard, sucks. balls.)

It does not have to load further. Here is the point where you use your web browser to access the server and install the whole system. Except of course if your NIC is not supported in the release, in which case you cannot make any network connection.

Normal boot NEVER stops at "Booting kernel...". Only stops there if it cannot boot. The SCSI removable disk message is perfectly fine. It means that your devices are detected as hot-swappable disks, but will still function fine. If the buzzer message stays, stick with 4.2. I'm pretty sure if enough people bug the devs with it, it will be fixed

Step by step: 1. Install any hacked BIOS to enable proper AHCI and all internal/external ports. Also set it to boot from USB first. 2. Grab Trantor's 4.3 release 1, and extract. 3a. If you're using Windows, download the app called DiskImager. Use that to write the smaller, .img file on the USB stick you want to use for booting the system. 3b. If you're using Linux, use DD to write it, or even better, use cat. 3c. If you're using OS X, then I'm shot. Never had to raw write any USB from OS X, so dunno about that 4. Insert the USB into the internal USB slot. Also insert the hard drives you don't mind formatting (the ones that will be used in your NAS) 5. Download and install Synology Assistant, but don't run it yet. 6. Connect your microserver to a screen, network, and power it on. 7. It should finish initial power-on in about two minutes. The text will stop scrolling on the screen. Run the Synology Assistant, and let it discover the device (make sure you connect to the same network, and that DHCP is enabled!). 8. The Assistant should see the device. Right click and choose "Connect" (not Install!). A new browser page will open, with the device's IP address, and will get you ready to set it up. Just follow the steps written on screen, give it the .pat file when it asks, name it, etc., set it up. In about 5 minutes you'll have your XPE disk station up and running! 9. One little thing. If you don't want to lose your boot USB, remove it before clicking Next on the first screen (or as soon as the Assistant can see the device). Otherwise it will be wiped, and you'll have to do Step 3 again to get it to boot (but Step 3 only!). I think that's all.

If you upgrade to 4.3 using the way described (booting 4.3 USB in 4.2 install, then installing it regularly), then you should have a clean slate, with all your data being safe and sound. Your apps, etc., will be gone, but you can back them up prior to update. Otherwise you can try modifying the synoinfo file, and make an "upgrade" to the same version, wiping everything. Also there's the "Restore defaults" option, that *should* keep your data safe.

You can try a settings backup, that *should* be able to import stuff after losing the configuration. Unfortunately there's no built-in option to save apps, their data, etc. Maybe that's the big thing in 5.0?

I think we need further subforums, e.g. Development, Q&A, Tutorials, and so on. It would help a lot, plus would keep it less crowded.

Two solutions: 1. Install Linux in VM 2. Install XPE on one of the devices, then edit the boot USB on it.

DLNA faster than SMB? Please don't make me laugh my ass off DLNA can be faster MAYBE, if you're streaming to a client with lesser capabilities. But if you're using any recent computer, 720p-1080p decoding locally is a lot faster than on your N54L, mostly because of the missing proprietary drivers for our GPU. At least for me, any player I tried, DLNA was a lot slower than accessing it via SMB. Only exception would be XBMC's PleXBMC plugin.

Depends which release you use. There was a chinese release about half a year ago that had huge problems, backdoors and trojans, etc., but e.g. all of Trantor's releases are based on original Synology packages, with only minor modifications to make it work on our hardware. Another question is the default security of the system. By default, your device expects it to be behind a firewall/router, but it also has a firewall you can easily activate, certain login restrictions (e.g. access from given IP ranges only), etc. But again, you can NEVER be completely safe on the internet. A device that connects to any kind of global network that is not regulated (such as the internet) has the risk of exposing its contents, services, functions, to anyone. It can be a built-in issue, or a virus you download, but the chance is still there. Nonetheless, in my experience Synology/XPE is safe.

Where did you read this? Post your sources. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1082&start=240 Yes, there indeed was a chinese release before Trantor's, but as far as I know, he only adopted the method, not the actual files - meaning everything is custom-made, so no worries, no chinese trojan will leave dirty in your server

Hi, and appologies as I know this is an older thread, but you say about NOT using Plex, and instead using direct playback from Samba. How do you stream the media to the TV without using Plex? I tried using the built-in Media Server (on theDSM) but it didn't seem to work very well. To begin with, I don't have a TV So I can use a simple SMB mount and use that. When I want TV-like results, I have XBMC installed, it kinda gives the feeling of a DVR/VOD set-top-box, so that's it. But if you really want to stream stuff, I'd suggest using Serviio. It is a small DLNA server, a lot better performance-vise than Plex, and supports most of the widely used formats.

I got 5 disks (each 4TB), listed as Disk 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 in System Information under Storage. 4 disks in the "hot-plug able" bays and one disk in the DVD bay. The disk in the DVD bay is connected to the internal SATA port. Same working at me too. I'm using a customized BIOS though, enabling most of the extra features (can't say which ones, no VGA cable at hand, but the ones to make the hard drives hotswappable, and to enable full speed on the DVD and eSATA ports). Maybe leon has to edit his synoinfo.conf file?

The issue is most probably your hardware. See, Video Station transcodes the video into a supported format, in case of the web player it means MP4, and in case of the desktop app, well, I'm not sure, but that's quite limited too. For this exact reason I do not use Video Station, but installed Plex Media Server, and it works perfectly. My hardware is an HP N54L, standard build apart from storage.

What about reading Trantor's 4.3 release topic? It has been detailed at least 3 times, so I'm pretty sure you can find it by just reading a bit.

It would've helped a lot if you told us about CloudStation in the beginning By default, CloudStation acts like a really dumb version control system - it makes several backups, taking up precious space. I'd suggest you should use owncloud in the future if you want a cloud-like experience.

You'll have to modify the synoinfo config, and try to find the SSD ports layout. It is a pain in the ass, so all I can say is good luck :\ et la marmotte elle met le chocolat sur le papier d'alu Please in english, my French is a bit rusty (and very much nonexistent). But I get something like putting chocolate on tinfoil?

Check if any share on volume1, including homes, etc., has a "@eaDir" folder. Those are the "recycle bin" folders, removing them should free up the space

Hey! Just to answer a few questions: 1. You cannot install XPE separately on a separate disk. Unlike OMV and the other open-source, open-usage NAS distros, Synology DSM is intended to be used on a specific line of products, for home. Meaning, it has to be completely secure, and even if a hard drive fails, it has to be able to recover. To achieve this, XPE formats ALL AVAILABLE hard drives (internally detected ones) to its own format: [boot sector, specifically made for Synology, for us, replaced with GRUB][approx. 2GB partition connected in RAID (Synology Hybrid RAID) for the OS][Remaining space made available to the user, for using as Volumes, or iSCSI targets] Based on this, you cannot have XPE in a multi-boot environment. Maybe using a hypervisor, but that's another story. 2. I see you're trying to use OMV to emulate Synology. Only problem is, that OMV is a 32-bit software, running on i686 kernel. By my understanding, even on x86_64 hardware, if the running OS is x86 only, it is impossible to emulate x86_64. So at the moment, running XPE over OMV is not possible. You can, however, try a free, open source hypervisor, and have both installed. I'd suggest XenServer, or maybe VMWare's free hypervisor. 3. Truly, if you're familiar with OMV and Debian, there's no point of moving to Synology. I ran both of them, and stuck with XPE only because of the ease of usage, especially with packages. But to tell you the truth, I'm missing the flexibility and support of Debian/OMV, the amount of packages is incredibly low compared to them (talking about ipkg), rarely updated, and most of the stuff I want won't even work without hacky workarounds. So, if you depend on anything deeply integrated, or relatively complex, I'd say you should study further if it's possible with Synology at all.

Configuration Lost happens when you have a mismatching boot USB and PAT file installed. Or if the disks cannot be properly recognized. Can you please tell me more about your exact config, or retry installing Trantor's v1.2 release (completely new install meaning download the whole thing, flash the USB drive, and install the freshly extracted PAT. Just to make sure it is completely clean!)?

Thank you Trantor, great work as usual If I weren't such a lazy a**, I'd have done it already for myself Any way, running great, even with the new update, only one thing bugs me: I can't add manual SMB shares, unlike the previous 4.2 releases, it resets on reboot :\ Any idea?

They might change the way how the ingenuity test works, but as long as they identify based on the PCI devices, yes, it will work.

Installs without a problem, Trantor's implementation works perfectly. Though it seems to be stuck on "Analyzing" during update, refresh the page after 5 minutes, and it will be all updated. Also rebooted, nothing changed, volumes, etc., still exist.